Vicente de los Ríos

Vicente de los Ríos (Córdoba, 1732 - Madrid, June 2, 1779), Spanish Cervantes. Biography

He entered the Villaviciosa dragons regiment on August 30, 1757; in 1760 he was appointed sub-lieutenant of the artillery body, where he continued until being captain with the rank of lieutenant colonel, participating in the site and takes of Almeida (1762) during the war with Portugal; was professor of artillery in the Royal Artillery College of Segovia and wrote some technical works on this subject. Member of the Royal Academy of History and the Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid and of the Good Letters of Seville, and partner of the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense. And was knighted of the Order of Santiago 20 of February of 1779.

Underwent biographical research on Miguel de Cervantes and managed to find the documents of his rescue from Algiers, thus confirming the birth of Miguel de Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares. The Spanish Royal Academy commissioned him to supervise most of his edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha in 1780, and on his front he put his historical praise with an analysis and critical judgment. He also supervised the preparation of the map of La Mancha that is included in this edition and was responsible for editing and annotating the works of Baroque poet Esteban Manuel de Villegas (Madrid: Sancha, 1774). His claim that Don Quixote was an epic poem was criticized by José Marchena in his Lessons in Moral Philosophy and Eloquence (1820), using the theses of Father Francisco de Isla to differentiate between epic and history. Luis Vidart Schuch wrote his biobibliography in Life and writings of Don Vicente de los Ríos, Madrid: Imprint of the Artillery Corps, 1889. Works

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